Inquiry learning: rigor and relevance in your library

Iowa Library Association 2008 Annual Conference

Barbara A. JansenOctober 15, 2008

What do rigor and relevance look like from the student’s perspective?

What do we do to promote R & R?

Iowa Core Curriculum

State Library Guidelines

AASL

http://tinyurl.com/3qs2dh

or

http://library.sasaustin.org/21stCenturyStandards.php

Standards in action (draft):

http://tinyurl.com/3o26v7

Collaboration

Levels of Collaboration

Inquiry learning

Literacy

http://www.readitforward.blogspot.com/

http://joanrasmussen.edublogs.org/

http://summerreadinglists.pbwiki.com/

http://library.sasaustin.org/Contest.php

Click for CruNet

Information search process (any used)

2.Defining the task and organizing for the search

3.Identifying, locating, and evaluating sources

4.Acquiring information

5.Communicating results

6.Evaluating results

Which tools?

http://isptools.pbwiki.com/